Employees of the central office of the FSB detained the head of the economic security service (SEB) of the FSB department for the Krasnodar Territory Denis Melnik on suspicion of major fraud, Rosbalt reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. The issue of choosing a preventive measure for the detainee will soon be resolved. According to investigators, Melnikov demanded money from company executives who took out large loans and did not repay them.

The Moscow cinema "Pioneer" will stop showing the film "The Death of Stalin", according to the cinema's Facebook page. “Dear friends, for reasons beyond our control, as of January 27, the Pioneer cinema is forced to stop showing the film “The Death of Stalin”,” the message said. Pioneer added that for “additional questions” you should contact the Ministry of Culture. The cinema promises to return money for purchased tickets.

Anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov, arrested in the case of participation in a terrorist community, told members of the Public Monitoring Committee about torture, according to the report of the Public Monitoring Commission, which is at the disposal of Mediazona.

The head of the Ural Customs Department, Major General Maxim Chmora, commented on the Mediazona text about a transgender person who became involved in a case under Article 226.1 of the Criminal Code (smuggling of potent substances), reports . RBC-Ekaterinburg “The media published a person’s claims about his harassment in connection with his gender self-determination. Let's not look for sensations where there are none!

The Ministry of Internal Affairs entered into the federal database of invalid documents the passports of Muscovites Pavel Stotsko and Evgeniy Voitsekhovsky, who got married in Denmark and received a mark about it in the capital’s MFC, according to the department’s website. As stated in the message, the employee who put the marriage registration stamp in her passport and her supervisor will be dismissed from the internal affairs bodies.

The brother of politician Alexei Navalny, Oleg Navalny, who is serving a sentence in IK-5 of the Oryol region, filed complaints with the Investigative Committee, the FSB, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Public Monitoring Committee against the bans imposed on him by the first deputy head of the regional Federal Penitentiary Service Vasily Mikhailenko. According to the text of the complaint, in December 2017, Mikhailenko visited Navalny’s cell twice.

In the east of Moscow, a policeman driving a service car hit a pensioner driving a dog sled, , told TASS. Yuri Titov, head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow According to him, the accident occurred in the Metrogorodok area. The collision went tangentially; the policeman called first aid and reported the incident to the duty station, Titov said. According to the press service, the dog sled was moving towards the official vehicle.

The Volga District Military Court, at a visiting session in the Kazan Garrison Court, sentenced Amir Khakimullin, who was found guilty of participating in the activities of the Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in Russia, to 17 years in a maximum security colony, reports . Tatar-inform As reports Interfax , Khakimullin was convicted under parts 1 and 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and participating in it).

A criminal investigation operative from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kamchatka Territory, Dmitry Sutyagin, stole from the St. Petersburg IKEA goods worth 4.5 thousand rubles , explaining his act by the absence of a hypermarket in his homeland. According to 47News , on the evening of April 2, 2017, 39-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Sutyagin arrived at the Mega-Dybenko shopping complex.

The Moscow prosecutor's office reported that the executive authorities did not monitor the observance of public order and the safety of citizens during the Muslim protest at the Myanmar embassy on September 3, 2017, since an application to hold this rally was not submitted to the mayor's office. This response from the department was published by opposition politician Alexei Navalny on his website.

The Sochi department of the Investigative Committee began an investigation based on a video recording, which shows nurses from local city hospital No. 4 taking a patient in a wheelchair outside the facility and leaving him lying on the ground, according to the department’s website. Video footage from surveillance cameras was published on Youtube the day before.

The St. Petersburg Election Commission contacted the police because of the distribution of leaflets by supporters of politician Alexei Navalny, commission member Dmitry Krasnyansky told Interfax. “We have had requests, and as a result of our own monitoring, we have established that certain leaflets are being issued, which contain predominantly information about one of the candidates for the position of President of the Russian Federation, combined with negative comments.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) communicated the complaint of a resident of Ulyanovsk, who had been beaten by her common-law husband since 2015. The human rights organization “Legal Initiative” reported this to Mediazona. According to the applicant, who has not been named, her former common-law husband began stalking her after the separation and beat her for the first time in April 2015. She said that the man repeatedly promised to kill her and her son.

In Moscow, police officers came to the Pioneer cinema, where the day before the premiere of the comedy The Death of Stalin took place, from which the Ministry of Culture confiscated its distribution certificate. about this on Twitter . wrote journalist AFP Ola Chichovlas According to Chichovlas, police and people in plain clothes came to the cinema. They refuse to tell her the reason for their visit.

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan terminated the administrative case against activist Amir Akchulpanov, who was accused of hooliganism, the human rights organization “Zone of Law” reported . On December 27, 2017, Akchulpanov parked near the hotel in the center of Kazan. In front of the building, metal fences were exhibited with the inscription "for hotel customers." Akchulpanov tried to prove to the guards that the fences were established illegally, but they called the police.